TripAdvisor Reviews Onsea House Country Inn & Guest Cottage Arusha

Travel Blogs from Arusha

Well, we pick up our story at 1am in the Kilimanjaro airport... We met some very unfriendly visa and customs agents but they did what they needed to and we got our bags and were on our way. We met our driver outside of the airport with a sign that said "Morin x 2" and he was so friendly - we felt like we had finally arrived!

... accounts of each of the 6 days it took us to climb the mountain written after our hike each day. Enjoy! Day 1 (Jan 19th) - We are off on our Kili trek! Today is day 1 of a total of 6 on the mountain. We are a group of 7, Luke, me, Christian, my sister Katie, her boyfriend Logan, and two friendly swedes, Goran and Jonas. We also have 28 support crew - a leader, 3 assistant guides, 2 cooks, and 22 porters. Quite a big crew! Today, we started ...

... under the truck Robert told us to settle in for the long haul. We enjoyed a lunch of peanut butter sandwiches that we made outside the petrol station, also situated opposite a school. As you can imagine the school kids were in their element "MUZUNGU MUZUNGU!!" This means white man in Swahili, we hear this word ALOT. Swahili seems to be a pretty literal language with the direct translation of the Chinese being ...

... hours before arriving at the visitor centre, Ben our driver explained how the Ngorongoro crater had came into existence and a general outline of the evolution of the crater. We stopped at the view point for pictures of the crater before heading to lunch. This was a bloody disaster, we were given prepared pack lunches and sat down to eat them under some trees when we were attacked by black kites, Andrea was hit in the nose by one and I got dive ...

Andy: we could've gone dancing tonight but instead we just sat at our accommodation and responsibly drunk for 7 hours because we have school tomorrow. In between we went to the most expensive restaurant in Arusha. So expensive that no one else could afford to go and we were the only group of people there. In every place I've been with a large group of people little ...